* * * IMPORTANT UPDATE * * *

As of April 22, 2013, the telephone numbers for the Crescent City have been updated to their permanent numbers.

Due to unexplainable environmental circumstances the Howonquet Health Clinic has been ordered to close for the safety of the clients and staff. Our clients will be seen at the following clinics, as scheduled. 

Crescent City:

Monday –          8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday –    8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday -       1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Elk Valley:

Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Klamath:

Tuesday -      8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday -    1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  
Friday -         8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused and will cause our clients but your health is of paramount importance to us. Please contact Sharyne Harper at 707.951.1039 with any questions you might have.

Candidates                      # of Votes          % of Votes
                                        Recieved             Received

Area 1
Florine Fern Bates                 28                      100%

Area 2
Everett “Dewey” Myers           22                      100%

Area 3
C. Ellen Durfee                     36                       52.17%
Raja G. Storr                         33                       47.83%

REGISTERED VOTERS  ALL AREAS                       627
REGISTERED VOTERS FOR AREAS 1,2,3               538
BALLOTS COUNTED AREAS 1,2,3                       119

If you have any questions regarding the 2012 Election Results, feel free to contact Carol Larsen at (707) 825-5000

These results were certified by the UIHS Election Committee and were affirmed that this election was conducted in accordance with the Election Policies of the United Indian Health Services, Inc. 

2013 Voter Registration Application

 Acornbasket Newsletters:

2013

• January/February
• March/April

Photo: Courtesy of www.klamathwaterquality.com/dam_location.html

Area V Rancherias/Reservations/Tribes:

None

Photo: Courtesy of Bigfoot Rafting Co. - Willow Creek, CA

Area IV Rancherias/Reservations/Tribes:

None

Photo by Don Forthuber: Courtesy of Humboldt County CVB, Redwoods.info

Area III Rancherias/Reservations/Tribes:

Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria
Table Bluff Reservation - Wiyot Tribe

Photo by Jack Hopkins: Courtesy of Humboldt County CVB, Redwoods.info

Area II Rancherias/Reservations/Tribes:

Trinidad Rancheria
Blue Lake Rancheria
 

Photo by Don Forthuber: Courtesy of Humboldt County CVB, Redwoods.info

Area I Rancherias/Reservations/Tribes:

Big Lagoon Rancheria
Elk Valley Rancheria
Resighini Rancheria
Smith River Rancheria
Yurok Tribe

UIHS Service Areas

P.O. Box 1027
Klamath, CA 95548
(707) 482-1350
(707) 482-1377 Fax

Chairman: Thomas O'Rourke

Tribal Affiliation:  Yurok

Photo courtesy of yuroktribalcourt.com
  

Tribal Government Representatives

Larry Hendrix

Lyle McKinnon (Alternate)

 

 

 

 Culturally, our people are known as great fishermen, eelers, basket weavers, canoe makers, storytellers, singers, dancers, healers and strong medicine people. 

The Klamath-Trinity River is the lifeline of our people because the majority of the food supply like salmon, sturgeon and candlefish are offfered to us from these rivers.   Also important to our people are the foods which are offered from the ocean and inland areas such as mussels, seaweed, acorns, deer, elk, berries and teas.  These foods are essential to pur people health, wellness and religious ceremonies.

1000 Wiyot Road
Loleta, CA 95551
(707) 733-5055
(707) 733-5601 Fax

Chairman: Gail Green

Tribal Affiliation:  Wiyot

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Tribal Government Representatives

Cheryl Seidner

Velva Angell (Alternate)

 

 

 

Their traditional homeland ranged from Mad River through Humboldt Bay to the lower Eel River basin.  Inland, their territory was heavily forested in ancient redwood.  Their stretch of shoreland was mostly sandy, dunes and tidal marsh.

The reservation is 16 miles south of Eureka between Loleta and the South Jetty of Humboldt Bay.  Some people of the Wiyot descent are enrolled in the Bear River Rancheria.

Language:  Algonquian

The tribal headquarters are located in Loleta California.

140 Rowdy Creek Road
Smith River, CA 95567
(707) 487-9255
(707) 487-0930 Fax

Chairman: Kara Miller

Tribal Affiliation:  Tolowa

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Tribal Government Representatives

Marian Lopez

Kara Miller (Alternate)

 

 

 

The Tolowa are a tribe of Native Americans, who still resided in their traditional territories in Northwestern California and southern Oregon.  Tolowa are members of the federally recognized Smith River Rancheria, Elk Valley Rancheria, Confederated Tribes of Siletz, as well as the unrecognized Tolowa Nation. 

The have traditionally spoke the Tolowa language, one of the Athapaskan languages.  Their subsistence was oriented around riverine and marine resources and acorns.
 

P.O. Box 529
Klamath, CA 95548
(707) 482-2431
(707) 482-3425 Fax

Chairman: Rick Dowd

Tribal Affiliation:  Yurok

Photo courtesy of epa.gov 
  

Tribal Government Representatives

Rick Dowd

Sunshine Watkins (Alternate)

 

 

 

The Resighini Rancheria is a federally recognized reservation and is located along the south bank of the Klamath River and on the west by Highway 101 bridge and backed up against privately owned land within what is now known as the Yurok Reservation.

We presently have increased our land base; we have five homes, three tribal administration buildings, a tribally owned Gold Bear Casino, a tribally owned Cher-ere Campground and are in the process of other economic development projects.

The tribal headquarters are located in Klamath California.

2332 Howland Hill Road
Crescent City, CA 95531
(707) 464-4680
(707) 464-4519 Fax

Chairman: Dale Miller

Tribal Affiliation:  Tolowa

Photo courtesy of ourevolution.com
  

Tribal Government Representatives

John Green

To be appointed by tribe (Alternate)

 

 

 

 The Tolowa resided in eight villages along or near the coast.  There are currently ninety-four tribal members in the Elk Valley Rancheria, a combination of both Tolowa and Yurok Indians. 

The Tribe has worked hard to bring prosperity to both the Elk Valley Rancheria, and surrounding region through providing employment opportunities, a wide variety of donations, community support and revenue.  Tribal revenues are also invested in college education for tribal members, as well as early education programs for Native American children at the Elk Valley Head Start.

P.O. Box 630
Trinidad, CA 95570
(707) 677-0211
(707) 677-3921 Fax

Chairman: Garth Sundberg

Tribal Affiliation:  Yurok, Miwok, Tolowa

Photo courtesy of wikopedia.com
  

Tribal Government Representatives

Joy Sundberg

Ruby Rollings (Alternate)

 

 

 

The Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe located near the City of Trinidad, California.

For thousands of years the Yurok, Wiyot and Tolowa people have lived in the coastal redwood forest region of Northern California.  They were fishers, hunters and gatherers who subsisted primarily on salmon, clams, mussels and other ocean fish, as well as deer, elk, and smaller game animals.  Assorted berries and tan oak acorns were also food staples.  Year-round ceremonies were, and continue to be, central to the Yurok, Wiyot and Tolowa culture bringing families and villages together to give thanks, heal and pray.

P.O. Box 428
Blue Lake, CA 95525
(707) 668-5101
(707) 668-4272 Fax

Chairman: Claudia Brundin

Tribal Affiliation:  Wiyot, Yurok, Tolowa

Photo courtesy of Wright Hotel Development.com
  

Blue Lake Rancheria is a federally recognized Indian reservation shared by Wiyot, and a few Yurok and Hupa people.  Located in Northern California, 12 miles north of Eureka and 5 miles east of Arcata.

The Blue Lake Rancheria tribe is a Sovereign Nation which exercises jurisdiction over its Tribal lands and Tribal Members.  The Tribe is organized under an IRA Constitution and has the authority to administer programs designed to meet the needs of American Indians residing on the Blue Lake Rancheria, Largely through a PL 93-638 Self Determination Contract, and the operation of its Economic Development Corporations.

P.O. Drawer 3060
Trinidad, CA 95570
(707) 826-2079
(707) 826-0495 Fax

Chairman: Virgil Moorehead

Tribal Affiliation:  Yurok, Tolowa

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Tribal Government Representatives

Virgil Moorehead

 

 

 

The Big Lagoon Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Yurok and Tolowa indians.  They are located in Humbo

ldt County and their tribal headquarters is in Arcata, California.

The tribe was first recognized by the US Federal Government on July 10, 1918.  The tribe has 24 enrolled members, eight households reside on the reservation.

Their 20 acre reservation is adjacent to Big Lagoon, a beautiful waterway, located 30 miles north of Eureka.

The history of the United Indian Health Services began in 1968. It was a time when Native activism coincided with the nation-wide Civil Rights Movement and the Office of Economic Opportunity programs. Together these factors helped create a new era of self-determination for Indian peoples.

In California, where health services were so lacking, Indian groups formed their own health organizations. Each maintained its separate programs but together they started the California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (CRIHB), an organization which continues providing its members with a variety of quality improvement and advocacy services. Sheer determination, hard work and financial sacrifice paid off when UIHS became an official non-profit organization, ready to serve people in 1970. UIHS started with community outreach services. The first services provided on site were dental services. UIHS continued to expand it's services into nearly every large town within Humboldt County, as well as servicing tribal members from every Rancheria and Reservation in the areas of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The use of UIHS mobile services allowed the clinic to provide services to tribal members who still lived in areas that had no electricity or telephones. Over the next twenty years UIHS outgrew four sites, started several satellite clinics, and went from offering basic visiting community health representative's, dental and medical services to a thoroughly modern, full spectrum health service agency. Along the way UIHS has increasingly realized it's goal of incorporating traditional values and customs into daily activities.

27 Bear River Drive
Loleta, CA 95551
(707) 733-1900
(707) 733-1972 Fax

Chairman: Len Bowman

Tribal Affiliation:  Wiyot, Mattole

Photo courtesy of bear river casino 
 

Tribal Government Representatives

Aileen Meyer

Barbara Orr (Alternate)

 

 

 

The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe, located South of Eureka, traditionally living on the Mattole and Bear Rivers in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino.

One notable difference between the Mattole and other indigenous people if what is now northwest California is that the men traditionally had facial tatoos (on the forehead), while other local groups traditionally restricted facial tatoos to women.  

The Mattole spoke an  Athapaskan Language, aboriginal Bear River Villages included Tcalko', Chilsheck, Selsche'ech, Tlanko, Estakana, and Sehtla.

The tribal headquarters are located in Loleta California.

The Indian tribes that founded UIHS have lived in Humboldt and Del Norte counties for hundreds of years. Abandoned by the state, they were left without health care for many years. First incorporated in 1970, UIHS is a tribally owned and governed Indian Health Care Service with a main facility-Potawot-and five sites in outlying areas. In its 42-year history, it has grown from a staff of less than a dozen people to a comprehensive health care of more than 200 employees. It is governed by a Board of Directors that includes Indian community representatives from five different regions and Tribal Government representatives from each of the primary tribes and rancherias.

Compliance Program

The United Indian Health Services Compliance Program, established by the Board of Directors, is one of the key components supporting our commitment to high standards of corporate conduct.

Compliance Program 

 The United Indian Health Services Compliance Program, established by the Board of Directors, is one of the key components supporting our commitment to high standards of corporate conduct.

Quality healthcare also requires a quality working environment. We commit ourselves to creating healthy working conditions that support a sense of family within the organization and allow our staff to provide quality care. Everyone at UIHS accepts the responsibility for fostering an organizational culture that promotes teamwork and encourages us to care for ourselves and each other.

United Indian Health Services (UIHS) came into being in an era of great social change driven by a need for equality and a sense of exciting experimentation.  The organization has weathered storms, some ferocious, some mild.  Over 40 years later, UIHS is a full fledged model of rural health care programs and provides a full range of health services and preventative program for people of all ages.

We recognize that the extensive historical trauma experienced by our people has had a significant impact on the health and wellness of our community. We have survived this trauma but our struggle continues as the pain of these events affects our children and families to this day. We continue to heal and succeed through our culture, our traditions, our families and our spiritual resources.

As part of our healing process, United Indian Health Services was founded to meet our unique needs. We respect those dedicated community leaders who created UIHS to give us "a place of our own" and we honor their vision by always striving to make this the best place for our community to receive care.